Low fps gtx660 ? Help !

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mehantch

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Hello, I just bought a new gtx 660 to improve my FPS ingame. I managed to go from 40 fps on medium to 90 on high/ultra. Then my brother also decided to buy the 660, he had same graphic problem as I had. Thing is at same place in world of warcraft, he get about 40-45 fps where I get steady 90+. Can you guys help me out to find the fps probelm, I thought our computors were quite alike. Only diffrence is that he is playing on dvi, im playing HDMI, we're both useing 1920*1080.

My Specs:
Predator G3610
Intel(R) Core i5-2320 CPU @ 3.00GHz
Ram 8 gb
w7 64 bit.
Gigabyte Gtx 660
psu: 500w
Motherboard: Intel sandybridge/h67 (at least what CPU-z said)

My brothers comp spec:
Predator G3100
amd athlon(tm) II x4 645 3.10 ghz.
Ram 8 gb
w7 64 bit.
Gigabyte Gtx 660
psu: 500w
Motherboard: Amd 880g sb850

Thanks in advance, really need some quick help.
 
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angevil

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He is CPU bottlenecked in that area in WoW, as wow is primarily a CPU intensive game. The IPC on your sandy bridge is over 50% faster at the same clock compared to his Athlon II. Unfortunetely the computers are not alike, your CPU is over 50% faster at stock, so your brother gets the short end of the stick, haha. He can overclock, but yours would still end up being significantly faster.
 
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mehantch

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Thanks alot for the quick response! So I suppose he has to upgrade his cpu...can you guys recommend a cpu that fit to his motherboards, is quite good and doesnt cost a fortune? thanks alot.
 
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Akantus

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It's the CPU not the GPU. WoW can be really CPU intensive especially in towns, raids and areas with lots of people. And your i5 is so much better in WoW, or games generally.
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/188?vs=363 -> Third from bottom.

New GPU will allow him to crank settings up, but if he wants to improve minimums it's the CPU he needs to upgrade.
If you want to be certain, run afterburner in background in that low fps area and if GPU usage is <99% you are CPU limited.

Other thing to try is run WoW in DX11, I believe it offloads some work to GPU so it might help some, but it's a wildshot. (not 100% sure about this, haven't play WoW in ages.)
 
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Durvelle27

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The problem is World of Warcraft is very cpu intensive so he's bottlenecking his card that's why he has lower FPS

World of Warcraft requires cpus with strong single threaded performance which isn't AMDs strong point.

i5-2400 vs Athlon II x4 645 You see a big difference in performace
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I would suggest him upgrading his cpu

to something like a AMD FX 4300 or AMD FX 6300

FX 4300 vs i5-2400
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FX 6300 vs i5-2400
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mehantch

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Well ill talk to him, suppose he gotta buy one of those or upgrading to a new motherboards and get a i5 instead.
 
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mehantch

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Seems like he gonna wait abit with a biggger upgrade of the motherbord. AMD FX-4100 4-Core Processor is this anything that would improve his gaming? then he wont need to change motherboard. thanks in advance.
 
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Durvelle27

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mehantch said:
Seems like he gonna wait abit with a biggger upgrade of the motherbord. AMD FX-4100 4-Core Processor is this anything that would improve his gaming? then he wont need to change motherboard. thanks in advance.
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by only about 5-10FPS which isn't worth it
 
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Akantus

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Have you thought about overclocking? It could give solid boost for free (or cheap, depending on cooler).
 
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